Tag: Global South
Looting, Dispossessing, Incarcerating
How is the ecological fallout from the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil related to the struggle against prisons?
“Bolsonarismo” after Bolsonaro
Sean Purdy explains how, even after his loss to Lula da Silva in Brazil’s recent Presidential election, a network of far-right elements may seek to continue promoting a “Bolsonarist” agenda in Brazil and how the left must learn from its legacy of antifascist struggle in order to truly defeat them.
Inside Sisi’s Prisons: Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s Fight for Freedom
Shireen Akram-Boshar interviews Sharif Kouddous about Egyptian political prisoner and hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
First and Third World Ecosocialisms
David Camfield argues that neither Matt Huber’s First World ecosocialism nor Kai Heron’s Third World ecosocialism are sufficient political responses to the ecological crisis of global capitalism.
Life That Resists Death
A leftist activist in Iran explains the conditions that led to the latest uprising spreading across the country.
Exacerbating the Contradictions
Joseph Daher explains the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine on the MENA region after decades of agricultural neoliberalism increased its vulnerability.
On Collective Grieving
Loubna Qutami writes of the Zionist assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, who represented hope in the face of settler colonial fragmentation.
The Future of the Resistance Committees in Sudan
Three Sudanese leftists reflect on the state of the Resistance Committees that formed in the 2018 revolution.
“Those Who Are Poor, Die Poor”
Jeffrey R. Webber makes sense of the election of Boric in the context of October’s social explosions in Chile.
Counterrevolution in Sudan
Magdi el-Gizouli discusses October’s military coup in Sudan and contextualizes the resistance to it in the wake 2018–19 movement.